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The TypeScript Workshop

By : Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matt Morgan, Vekoslav Stefanovski
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Book Image

The TypeScript Workshop

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By: Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matt Morgan, Vekoslav Stefanovski

Overview of this book

By learning TypeScript, you can start writing cleaner, more readable code that’s easier to understand and less likely to contain bugs. What’s not to like? It’s certainly an appealing prospect, but learning a new language can be challenging, and it’s not always easy to know where to begin. This book is the perfect place to start. It provides the ideal platform for JavaScript programmers to practice writing eloquent, productive TypeScript code. Unlike many theory-heavy books, The TypeScript Workshop balances clear explanations with opportunities for hands-on practice. You’ll quickly be up and running building functional websites, without having to wade through pages and pages of history and dull, dry fluff. Guided exercises clearly demonstrate how key concepts are used in the real world, and each chapter is rounded off with an activity that challenges you to apply your new knowledge in the context of a realistic scenario. Whether you’re a hobbyist eager to get cracking on your next project, or a professional developer looking to unlock your next promotion, pick up a copy and make a start! Whatever your motivation, by the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence and understanding to make it happen with TypeScript.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface

TypeScript Inheritance

We will now dive into inheritance, which is one of the core principles of object-oriented programming. It allows us to stay DRY (don't repeat yourself). Inheritance also allows us to be polymorphic, by abstracting functionality. Inheritance gives you the ability to extend your classes from the original class to a child class, which allows you to retain the functionality from the parent or original class and add or override what you don't need.

Child classes can override methods of their parents and have their own methods and objects. Inheritance only allows you to build on the parent class; how you implement your child class is up to you. However, the rule is that there must be some code you need to reuse from your parent class in your child class or you should create a new class as there would be no need to extend a class you don't plan to use any code from.

Let's say you have a user class created to manage users in your application...